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Just an introduction to an up and coming young man from Detroit, MI What's your thoughts you can follow me on IG @Smoakworkz Thanks for sharing

Thoughts on Bet Music Awards Tribute to the late DMX

Thoughts too soon but more to come !

NFL Detroit Lions

My life during coronavirus

Let's go football is back

I'm back and better than ever ! New content is on the way follow me on IG @smoakworks and on Facebook Derrick Smoakworks

Just during this Covid madness I decided to put together a podcast with some entertaining and encouraging music to lift the spirits of the people around the world ! So stay safe and please share.......

Special Guest Steve Harvey and Governor Kemp ! Thanks for listening and sharing! Find me on social media platforms Smoakworks Thanks for Listening

Today's episode has some great advice from various success black actors as well as with a gospel twist ! Please share and enjoy ! Special guest Legend Bill Duke and special 80s actor Todd Bridges

Starting a children's podcast audio series thanks again for your support and listening

Today's Podcast ! Is about coronavirus and how thing are going !

This is a powerful message it's so good I even hate to give any details! Powerful messages it has already been played over 20K times worldwide The pastor once again is Jamal Bryant out of Atlanta, GA

Checking in on my folks

This Podcasts is about how the government is handling this issue with coronavirus!

What's your thoughts?

More Podcasts are on the way ! Enjoy your day and most importantly this message

Kobe Bryant Tribute! This Podcast has already been streaming over 1 million times ! Rest in Peace to all the victims!

Join the REVOLUTION with me and the incredible women of Radical Women’s Ministry! From March 14th through March 16th, we will be coming together with women from across the globe for the 2019 Radical Revolution Women’s Conference at World Changers Church International, in College Park, Georgia. This upcoming year’s conference centers around the idea of being “unfiltered.” Who are we truly when we remove societal filters and live our lives transparently? How can we become the authentic version of ourselves that God knows and created us to be? Through thoughtful dialogue, we can find the answers during three-day, inspirational event.

Thomas Dexter Jakes Sr., known as T. D. Jakes, is a pastor, author and filmmaker. He is the pastor of The Potter's House, a non-denominational American megachurch

That's right its Pubg mobile season 11. This game is fun for the fellas and the ladies ! I go by the name of Derrick Charles on the Podcast but on Pubg billswagger so check me out add me as a friend ! What's your thoughts on the update ? Hit me up on Twitter @smoakworkz 👊🏾👌

Super Bow is coming this is a short podcast but a full one will be available soon! Follow me on Twitter @smoakworkz and on Instagram @Smoakworks 👊🏾 Much love and support!

Thanks so much for all the support last year! My various podcast reached over 20k listeners ! I'm new to this and want to bring bigger and better shows! Follow me on spotify and also on Twitter @Smoakworkz !

Just some fun...

It's me on Twitter @smoakworkz just follow and enjoy ! The ride this podcast is a Joy and love...

Wake up smile and let's get this new week off to a good start !

Make simple FREE predictions and compete to win HUGE cash prizes. Follow me on Twitter @smoakworkz for more details! Let's play and interact together! Sunday Night Football has gotten more exciting! #nfl

Just saying hello to the fans ! For the fall of 2019 I'm having some new media content! Topics like sports, money and various other topics ! I'm also have more guests available for my shows to bring forth more variety! Appreciate the support ! I can also be found on Twitter @Smoakworkz Let's Talk About Fall Line Up is on the way..

Eventhough its week 4 of the NFL season I decided to put together a podcast for my top 7 games of the week! Follow me on on Twitter @smoakworkz Thanks for listening

With all the hype across the world regarding Popoyes chicken sandwich I've decided to make a short podcast on this topic. So is the sandwich good ? Is it really worth all the media hype? Let's Talk About It! Follow me on Twitter @Smoakworkz and On Instagram @Smoakworks Thanks for Listening!

This is my brief break so I decided to share another podcast with you guys! It's a partnership so check it out !

With all the issues I decided to make a podcast... In Jay's voice it's just my thoughts man! Follow me on Twitter at @smoakworkz also on IG @smoakworks ! Thanks for the support and let's talk on my social media spread the word people! Thanks!

Hey folks i'm thinking about doing a podcast about football. What's your thoughts? I'm a Detroit Lions fan however i'm also willing to talk about the other 31 teams too!

Why is racism still a problem today? We can travel as far as to the moon but can't still get along with one another due to the fact that we don't look the same ? In this podcast I will discuss some of the latest racist issues we are facing in America! Thanks for tuning it !

Love in a today's society. What's the meaning more to come and more podcasts material is on the way... Follow me on Twitter @Smoakworkz and on IG @Smoakworks

Nothing but a thanks to all the listeners ! Mad love! It's more content coming so stay tuned! Follow me on IG @smoakworks On Twitter @Smoakworkz

SEVERAL PHOENIX POLICE OFFICERS, APPARENTLY DRUNK ON POWER, SCREAMING, CURSING, AND THREATENING TO SHOOT A BLACK FAMILY.

Though Love’s tales from the frontier seem typical for a 19th-century cowboy, they come from a source rarely associated with the Wild West. Love was African-American, born into slavery near Nashville, Tennessee.

Few images embody the spirit of the American West as well as the trailblazing, sharpshooting, horseback-riding cowboy of American lore. And though African-American cowboys don’t play a part in the popular narrative, historians estimate that one in four cowboys were black.

The cowboy lifestyle came into its own in Texas, which had been cattle country since it was colonized by Spain in the 1500s. But cattle farming did not become the bountiful economic and cultural phenomenon recognized today until the late 1800s, when millions of cattle grazed in Texas.

White Americans seeking cheap land—and sometimes evading debt in the United States—began moving to the Spanish (and, later, Mexican) territory of Texas during the first half of the 19th century. Though the Mexican government opposed slavery, Americans brought slaves with them as they settled the frontier and established cotton farms and cattle ranches. By 1825, slaves accounted for nearly 25 percent of the Texas settler population. By 1860, fifteen years after it became part of the Union, that number had risen to over 30 percent—that year’s census reported 182,566 slaves living in Texas. As an increasingly significant new slave state, Texas joined the Confederacy in 1861. Though the Civil War hardly reached Texas soil, many white Texans took up arms to fight alongside their brethren in the East.

While Texas ranchers fought in the war, they depended on their slaves to maintain their land and cattle herds. In doing so, the slaves developed the skills of cattle tending (breaking horses, pulling calves out of mud and releasing longhorns caught in the brush, to name a few) that would render them invaluable to the Texas cattle industry in the post-war era.

But with a combination of a lack of effective containment— barbed wire was not yet invented—and too few cowhands, the cattle population ran wild. Ranchers returning from the war discovered that their herds were lost or out of control. They tried to round up the cattle and rebuild their herds with slave labor, but eventually the Emancipation Proclamation left them without the free workers on which they were so dependent. Desperate for help rounding up maverick cattle, ranchers were compelled to hire now-free, skilled African-Americans as paid cowhands.

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An African-American cowboy sits saddled on his horse in Pocatello, Idaho in 1903. (Corbis)

“Right after the Civil War, being a cowboy was one of the few jobs open to men of color who wanted to not serve as elevator operators or delivery boys or other similar occupations,” says William Loren Katz, a scholar of African-American history and the author of 40 books on the topic, including The Black West.

Freed blacks skilled in herding cattle found themselves in even greater demand when ranchers began selling their livestock in northern states, where beef was nearly ten times more valuable than it was in cattle-inundated Texas. The lack of significant railroads in the state meant that enormous herds of cattle needed to be physically moved to shipping points in Kansas, Colorado and Missouri. Rounding up herds on horseback, cowboys traversed unforgiving trails fraught with harsh environmental conditions and attacks from Native Americans defending their lands.

African-American cowboys faced discrimination in the towns they passed through—they were barred from eating at certain restaurants or staying in certain hotels, for example—but within their crews, they found respect and a level of equality unknown to other African-Americans of the era.

When they see us trailer and actor reactions for this film.

So the raptors ahocked the world or did they? Will this become a aurprise like the 2004 Detroit Pistons team. Who went on to beat The Lakers ? Thanks for listening and I appreciate your support! Like share and comment.

MICHAEL THOMPSON IS serving a 40- to 60-year sentence in Muskegon Correctional Facility in Michigan. He’s already spent a quarter of a century in prison. His father, mother, and his only son have died in the time he’s been behind bars. His mom’s final wish — which she told his nephew, Sheldon Neeley — was that Thompson wouldn’t die in prison. He’s 68. He felt ashamed at his mother’s funeral because he had to wear handcuffs. Thanks for sharing and listening.....

Thanks for tuning in to another exciting edition of Lets Talk About It. Congrats to all the 2019 Graduates. This episode explores student debt and I've teamed up again with Shaun King's Podcast The Breakdown....

This episode we are talking about sex! Yes Sex and I've teamed up with Emma Wright from Hollywood, CA She has some good tips so stay tuned and most important enjoy!

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Special Thanks to Shaun King by the way The Break Down can be found across all podcast platforms Follow me on Twitter Smoakworks

Special podcast today with our special guest Shuan King thanks so much brother ! Here is the message! Lets go!

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That's rights its season 6 already and the good folks at PUBG are continuing to keep mobile games happy! New weapons new ranking available in the zombies mode! So what and why are you waiting? Download Now.... Google Play Store and Apple Store. I GO BY NAME OF BILLSWAGGER ! So let's play!